Deprecation of Oak 1.4.x plan

[Julian Reschke <re...@apache.org>]

Hi there,

I'm planning to officially end-of-life Jackrabbit Oak 1.4 next week (see
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-9427>).

This is the last maintenance branch supporting Java 7.

Users of 1.4 are encouraged to switch to a platform compatible with Java 
8 (or newer) - the latest stable release is 1.40.0; the latest 
maintenance branch (essentially feature-frozen) is 1.22, with the 
current release being 1.22.8.

What it'll mean in actual actions:

     links will be removed from the download page
     news will be posted on the homepage
     [announce] will be sent to jr-user, jr-dev, oak-dev
     branch and tags WILL stay there
     label "candidate_oak_1_4" will be removed

See also http://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/docs/roadmap.html

Best regards, Julian